Flying low over some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet, a cadre of scientists and pilots have been measuring changes in Alaskan glaciers as part of …
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Flying low over some of the most dramatic landscapes on the planet, a cadre of scientists and pilots have been measuring changes in Alaskan glaciers as part of …
Fifty years to the day that humans stepped on the Moon in a giant leap for humanity, three space travelers are launching to our orbiting laboratory. NASA’s …
On Sat., Nov. 2 at 9:59 a.m. EDT, Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on a cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. Cygnus delivered around 8,200 pounds of research, supplies, and hardware to the orbiting laboratory, including supplies for upcoming spacewalks and student CubeSats. Read […]
The liftoff and eight-and-a-half minute ascent of shuttle Atlantis into space is among the highlights of STS-132’s first flight day of its 12-day mission. The six-member crew of Commander Ken Ham, Pilot Tony Antonelli and Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman, Steve Bowen, Mike Good and Piers Sellers is delivering to the ISS a cargo carrier filled […]
Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev and Flight Engineers Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Barry Wilmore of NASA launched on the Russian Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to begin a journey to the International Space Station. After launching, Samokutyaev, Serova and […]
New Horizons is the first mission to the Kuiper Belt, a gigantic zone of icy bodies and mysterious small objects orbiting beyond Neptune. This region also is known as the “third” zone of our solar system, beyond the inner rocky planets and outer gas giants. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland, designed, […]